Rice Belt Journal. Published Every Friday by -Walker & Company. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVAN( E. a' tered at the postoflice at Welsh, La., as second class matter. FRIDAY, JANUAR\ZY 9, 1903. i The stockholders composing the Welsh PrintingConmpany, Ltd., met in the JOURNAL office Monday night and perfected arrangements for the organ 'ization of the companhy, adopted a charter, elected ofiWcers and a hoard of directors. The following ottielrs were elected: J. T. Walker, presid(ent and manager; Gorbon ('rank, vice president: Claude T. Walker, secre retary and treasurer. The above named persons together with W. ZV. Welsh and F. D. Calkins compose the first board of directors. The Jorrn NAL, under its former management, endeavored to give its readers a clean, newsy paper and in the future, with the co-operation of those interested in the tpwn, hopes to achieve even great er results than in the past. Editor Bailey of the Vinton Herald t owns a bakery. Tourist printers will take notice an...

,A LURKING DANGER. There is a lurking danger in the aching back. The aches and pains of a bad back tell of kidneys overworked. Go to the kidneys' assistance when backache pains warn * you. A kidney warning - hould be heeded, for dangerous diabetes quickly follows in the - wake of backache. Urinary disorders are serious and Bright's disease is near at hand. Read how the danger can be averted. Case No. 15,741.-Re'-. Jacob D. Van Dorex, of 57 Sixth street, Fond du Lac, Wis., Presbyterian clergyman, says: "A man or woman who has never had kidney complaint or any of the little ills consequent upon irritated or inac tive kidneys knows very little about what prolonged suffering is. I had at tacks which kept me in the house for days at a time, unable to do anything, and to express what I suffered can hardly be adequately done in ordinary Anglo-Saxon. As time passed, compli cations set in, the particulars of which I will be pleased to give in a personal interview to any one who requires in f...

WALKER, OF JENNINGS, 1 4 ~jtWALKR Sells It obJ ~ 7j O JENNINSt " for Less. Sells It O Lfor Less. VOL. III ----- OL . WELSH, CA LCASI EU PARISH, .LA., FR I DAY, JANUARY 16, 190. NO. 8 WELSH FIELD BROADENED. ±E FO TH. f n...ss.ý-... ...IA . sw EW8 FROM THY OMr. wavr~i I. . . . . . . . . WELSH FIELD BROADENED. uthern Pacific Well Brought in a Good Oil Producer. After a delay of several ys on ac ount of minor accidents P Southern acific well No. 1, drilled by John W. hampion, was completed Tuesday fternoon and accepted by J. M. Lee. eneral agent, and M. Kennedy, spec al geologist, for the Southern Pacific ailroad company, who were present hen the first bailer of oil was brought p and remained in the field until the ell was finished. The completion of Southern Pacific o. 1 was in nowise a surprise, as it as generally known that, barring ac idents, it would be made an oil pro ucer before Tuesday night, and con equently a number of persons, espec lly oil men from a distance interest in the...

Ge gist £c1t onrltal. WELSH P'T'o Co., L't'd, Pubs: ,WELSH, - - LOUISIANA. d.. How many friendships are broken by one getting rich while the other ir stays poor. T] I Spring Valley modestly calls the at sention of the world to the kind of m men it turns out. Mr. Kipling takes occasion once c ., 1elore to show Mr. Austin who is really Stted to be poet-laureate. Pity the old man who puts on skates to show the youngsters how it oh was done when he was a boy. bI That change in the expression of .;h.e Sphinx may be caused by its as- a n: ishment at the Assouan dam. It doesn't follow that the man who m loasts of his rural origin will enjoy m 'emng told that he looks like a farmer. pt Everybody should be taught to read at and write, but something should be lone to prevent all of them from writ ':. The lovelorn youth can always fig Wr e out that two can live as cheaply a ats one, but it's hard to prove it after- o ward. A Mississippi bcotblack who has fIlen heir to a million dollars expect...

1113 rame wa4 SAn rntai -.. 11H rame was Soo Tokion and he . was the only Japanese student at a t big university on a big lake. H1er I name was Helen Sturtevant and she r was an American student at the same 1 tig university. Soo was a little fel- c low like nearly all of his race. Helen was a great, splendid creature who E towered more than a head above the p little Jap. The students said that Tokion came e very near be:ng a Greek word and they c wondered how the rame wandered to t far-off Japan. Of course the boys a called him "Susie" and the Jap never o minded at all until he found out that p Susie was a girl's name, and that it b was given to him in a sort of con tempt for his pigmy build. a The Japs are noted wrostlers, and a one day Susie astonished a big fellow a who had applied the gi-l nams to aim v, by standing him on his heal and near- I ly breakirg the tormnentcr's neck in do- v, ing it. After that even the husky a footh:all players sunk the name Susie s and spo!le to the...

The Rice Belt Journal. Published Every Friday by Walker & Company. ONE DOLI.LAI- A YEAR IN ADVAN(E. Entered at the postoflico at Welsh, La., as second class matter. FRIDAY, JANUR\IY ](, 190:9. The number of poll taxes paid for 1902, up to January 1, 1!)03. in Cal casieu parish, was 3840. Welsh is sadly in need ,of a larger and better postofliee building. The building now used is entirely too i small for the growing bus,iness of the town. Thanks to the board of trustees for passing an ordinance prohibiting cat tle from running at large within the 1 corporate limits of -Welsh, and we hope they will have it enforced. Speaking about Welsh as a location for an attorney, one of our prominent citizens, who is in a position to know something about the earnings of the legal profession, asserted that lie was confident an attorney c:,uld easily make $10 or more a day here. Since the Jennings Times man vis ited our oil fielt his paper has been devoting more space to the Welsh v field than t...

In Picturesque Holland, Side 4ights on the Dutch People at Home ±Amsterdam a Modern City, Well Kept and Attractive-Some C3stu.es. (Special Correspondence.) W 0 circumstances make Atnmterdam dear to the N sitor-It is not The Hogue, and it is the Spossessor of Rem brarit's "Night Watch." The HagiFe is a sort of bigvIillage, dully aris tociatic, peopled by men and women who mig..t be{country cousins of the gay, elegant Bruxellols. Amsterdam is a city, own Ingr one of the finest museums in Eu ro, as well as two almcst perfect purate collections of paintings. It is buoy and businesslike, determinedly modern and ambitious. At The Hague th anals are stagnant and malodor oU Amsterdam keeps her water Vondel Park. I.mtprr(rhnl , (AmstE Wals, within their fine quays, truly Duch in its persevering overcoming of difficulties. As to the great Rembrandt plct'lre. looked at through a long line of arched 'corridors-it is as finely placed as it deserves to be-it seems to be swim ming in a golden h...

i making affl.avits of his election expenses, a Marion county candidate reports that he paid his wife 50 cents for getting up and making the fire five times. Things must be coming to a terrible pass in Kansas. We want to know if tis is not bribery. Within historical times there have bee nno fewer than twenty-six record. er appeararces of new stars. One ofr the most brilliant was that which ap-, peared in the corstellat'on of Cas.' siopeia in 1572, a short time after the massacre of Bartholomew. ?rTAvT or Oro, C:ITr or TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY fa Frank J. Chaney makes oath th'Jt ie i. the senior partner of thu firm or I. J. Cheney &(o. doilb usiHes in the City of Toledo, Count and State aforesaid, and that said firm wil pay the sum of ONE II,_U DRED DOLLARS o each and every rase of C'atarrh that cannot be aured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK .7. CfItNEy Sworn to before me and subscribed in m gresence, this 6th day of December. A. D.l 1 (S3-L] A. W. GLEASON Notary Public. ...

Bicycles and Bicycle Sundries! [ *1 S I We wish to remind you that we can sup ply your wants in * the bicycle line. We have on hand a fine " ( stock of wheels and e ' bicycle suudries-in : fact the best stock in t this section of the 0 country. Come in and examineour line * i before making your 0 purchase for thecom- a ing season. c All kinds of bicy- * cle repairing done at reasonable figures Lr o .ns .@... "The Right Place." . . S Welsh, Louisiana. Do You Want Mloney? If so see H. E. HEALD and tI get your rice milled at the s PPPL'S IlIPtlIDT 1ICE MILLt COMWA?, CRO1WL?, LA. Money plentiful. Advances Liberal on a your rice where ever you have it stored. i. E. HEALD, Agent. F 1T WELSH IACHINE & WELL WORKS CO., Limited., Are now ready for business in their new shop situated just east of Paul Daniel's rice mill. OUR MACHINERY IS OF THE LATEST PATTEN. .Our Specialties are: Deep Well and Oil Well Screens, Pump, Engine and Boiler Repairing, Blacksmithing and Iron Work, Wagon and Woo...

~ALXER, SOP JUNNINOS, WALKE el, !$ells It Op JBNNINOB. for Less. Se11 It __ fror Less. VOLUME IV. WELSH, CALCASIEU PARISH, LOUISIANA, OCTOBER 9, 1903. NUMBER 19. M ail Orders Promptly Filled Express Charges Prepaid on all Orders of $5.00 and Over. SYOuR MONtY BACK I YOU WANT IT. A The Sorosis Shoes so --?FOR WOMEN.PE $ P A Eve PER PAIR Every point of improvement is incorporated into this Footwear. The leathers u re the very ---OR RY-ANDIVISIOS.. best that the market produces. A scientific system t. RS of measurement makes it easy to et Ii correct and Lake Charles' Best and Busiest Store comfortable fit. These Shoes always retain their shape and always look dressy and std. ish. THE NEW MILLINERY. THE NEW CLOAKS, SUITS, SKIRTS and SHIRT WAISTS, NEW DRESS WEAVES, a really marvelous collection of the new garments for women-a show incl inng everything and every garment among them, tailored and finished to the highest degree of perlection, and yet our WOMEN'S STYLISH JACKETS of Ke~sey an...

W t' a P'T'o Co., L't'd, Pubs: ,rW LSH, - - LOUISIANA . ,'-EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE. :'Lorraine T. Wilmer was killed by a .l 'e wire in his home at New York. Alexander Clark, an electric rail  promoter, died suddenly at Chi. i" Thlp senate committee on Indian fl . f5ig' is to visit the Indian Territory "i' out Oct. 20. i Lewis Nixon has announced that he dires the Democratic nomination for or o NNow York. -1'ke MgrLgi$ of .Argudla was-elightly i andedyin; a sword auel with Court o otfClgvUio at Paris. 1 ,M(olie Williams was Billed at Bir .igsai i Ala., and her body thrown :.,i a lake near that place. lion esacaped is a crowd at Coney i#,~ad and a panto followed. The ant was thrown over the top of a cage an enraged elephant . nk IMaster has fled a suit $  50,000 against Oklahoma City, al , that certain property of plain was confiscated by defendant Sbt due process of law. the meeting of the Interstate As of . ,,Livestock Sanitary s held in Denver, the following ae's were elected t...

IThe Rice Belt Journal. Published Every Friday by W:::ielsh Printing "Company, Ltd. R'N DOaLLAR A YEAR KM ADVANCE. ,te'haed st the postomoe at Welsh. L, as i asCpd olsa matt:er i" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1903. eA Well .Advertised J ;'Name j S-iseOthin tht competition, trusts U combiations of all kinds must bow If your name is strongly im Desd upon people's minds by judi- " oanns + ,ertisfn. you have an asset a is worth perhaps as much or more 'than your busines itsela. a braing owdler ith factory ancd voing at sfew hundred thous z.d refused $12.000,000 for its b. hey value their name at v miSions. This is only one of ,,e any thousands of sueh oases the npm is worth many times naTt~he bislneu itself / Su bt e uming pmlressed on ople's ,Mj 1iads stronger and stronger each day? I The Joutrnal ,j ~I'Is imprsing hundreds of people eve airekiheopl'nmes .nd goods - Why Not Yours? j s t!he 6toW9n trustees will fix fire lim . in whfch only brick buildings can. eeriected, they will do muCh to ad t...

.5Qrvont 6iii~ DY` RK P1 V1ýJNKIT1R1CK The domestic servant never blos '~omed more brightly and conspicuous I3 in every possible point of view than she does at the present time. That the challenges oriticism and actually disarms it is a fact that is quite as well known as that one and one make two. That she is anxiously awaiting an Opportunity for mental and intellectu al development cannot be denied by the most skeptical people in the land, be they employers or not, if'they will bidt take sufficient interest in the mat ter to give it but a superficial glance in passing. It must be admitted by the ~most prejudiced person that the serving damosel reveals ordinary am .bittion when she avails herself of every opportunity to practice upon h. er mistress' piano or mandolin. ,Therefore, she should be encour e ked to develop her musical talents, :uthe hope that she may ripen into i S.reside genius capable of rendering 5. ,° hr. and Schumann in such a man pn an to cause her to frown on the...